Article 3193B Algorithms can write fake reviews that humans rate as "helpful"

Algorithms can write fake reviews that humans rate as "helpful"

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Cory Doctorow
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One of the reasons that online review sites still have some utility is that "crowdturfing" attacks (in which reviewers are paid to write convincing fake reviews to artificially raise or lower a business or product's ranking) are expensive to do well, and cheap attacks are pretty easy to spot and nuke. (more")

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